Brassiere



July 22, 1947. J g g 2,424,453

BRASS IERE Filed Feb. 10, 1945 INVENTOR V ATTO EY Patented July 22, 1947 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BRASSIIJRE Jack Glick, Bronx, N. Y. Application February 10, 1945, Serial No. 577,242

2 Claims.

This invention relates to brassieres and similar garments including breast supporting cups or pockets. More particularly, my invention deals with a simplified method of forming primarily the breast-supporting cups or pockets to dispense with the use of conventional finishing or facing straps or tapes at peripheral edge portions of the cups or pockets. Still more particularly, the invention deals with cups or pockets made from single sheets of material having wide hems at edge portions thereof and darts in th lower portions to give shape and contour to the cups or pockets for proper fit upon the body Of a wearer. The novel features of the invention will be best understood from the following description when taken together with the accompanying drawing in which certain embodiments of the invention in each of the views, and in which:

Fig. 1 is a front perspective view of a brassiere made according to my invention.

Fig. 2 is a partial section on the line 22 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a partial section on th lin 33 of Fig. 1.

In the formation of breast supporting cups or pockets of brassieres or other garments, it has been customary to provide short hems closely adjacent peripheral edge pockets and then to finish inner surfaces of the garment by the use of finishing bands or tapes in order to reinforce the edges, and further to produce a neat and finished appearance.

It is one of the principal features of my invention to provide the breast supporting cups or pockets of garments of the kind under consideration with very wide inturned hem portions at peripheral edges, the edges of the hems being turned inwardly upon themselves and secured to the body portion of the cups or pockets by stitchings arranged adjacent said hem edges, producing on the resulting cups or pockets wide band portions of at least two ply thickness at the edges of the cups or pockets, which results in a, provision of the smooth folded terminal edges thereon. Another feature of my garment resides in forming the cups or pockets from single sheets of material, thereby materially simplifying the cost of producing the resulting garment, the cups or pockets being given the shape or contour by the formation of darts therein, as more fully hereinafter defined.

In Fig. l of the drawing I have illustrated a brassire having two substantially similar pockets portions of the cups or 5 and 6. Each pocket is formed from a single outer facing sheet of any suitable material, cut and folded to form upwardly contracted shoulder strap engaging ends 1 and 8, with which one end of adjustable shoulder straps 9 and ID are coupled. The other ends of the straps 9 and ID are coupled with the side and back bands II and I2, which extend from side edge portions of the pockets 5 and 6. The upper portions 1 and 8 of the pockets terminate in folded peripheral edges #3 and M formed by wide hems, one of which is shown at I5 in the section through the pocket 5 in Fig. 2 of the drawing. The edges of the hems are turned inwardly, as seen at H5 in Fig. 2, and the hems at said inturned edges iii are stitched to the body portion of the pocket along the stitch lines I? on both pockets, as noted in Fig. 1, forming at said upper edges what might be termed wide band portions of at least two ply thickness from which each pocket is formed.

Similar wide band portions are also formed at the lower edge portions of each pocket by the Wide hems I8, similar in general form to the hems l5, and stitched as seen at I 9, producing at the terminal lower edges 20 and 2| of the pockets the folds similar to the folded edges I3 and M.

In the present construction, inner adjacent edge portions of the pockets 5 and 6 are directly secured together by a comparatively short front portion 22 disposed primarily between lower porsideration of Fig. 1 of the drawing that the stitchings as at I! substantially parallel the edges l3 and I4, whereas the stitchings l9 diverge from the edges 20 and 2| as they approach the center center part of the garment than at the side edge portions thereof. It will also be apparent that the upper and lower bands overlap centrally of the front of the brassire, and this construction will maintain that portion of the brassiere intermediate the pockets as well as the peripheral bands of the pockets firmly upon the body of the wearer around the breasts in supporting the breasts in youthful position.

In order to give shape and contour to the cups or pockets 5 and 6, a dart is formed substantially centrally of each pocket, as seen at 23 and 24, the dart extending upwardly and terminating substantially at the nipple portion of the pockets, whereas other darts 25 an 26 are formed between the darts 23 and 24, and the coupling as at 22. These latter darts while aiding in giving the rounded contour to the cups or pockets, also operate to maintain the entire front center portion of the garment snugly upon the body of the wearer between the breasts.

The side and back bands H and I2 are also formed from single sheets of material, and as these band ar of similar form, the brief description of one will apply to the other, and the single cross section of Fig. 3 will be applicable to both bands.

Fig. 3 shows a cross section through the band 62. This band has wide inturned hems 21 and 28 on upper and lower edge portions thereof formed in the same manner as the hems I and I8 and secured in position by stitchings 29 and 30 to provide wide reinforced upper and lower edge portions on the bands composed of at least two thicknesses of the material employed. Extending from one band, for example, the band 18, is an elastic strap 3| and from the other band l2, a plain strap 32, these straps having any suitable means for detachable coupling, commonly known in the art, in securing the brassire circumferentially on the body of the wearer. It is preferred that the rear end portions of the shoulder straps extend completely across the bands I l and 12, as indicated in dotted lines at 33, and in like manner the straps 34 for supportinng the buckles 35 of the shoulder straps 9 and lil also extend fully across the hems l5 or up to the point of the stitchings H, as clearly indicated in Fig. 1, so that the pull upon the shoulder straps is taken up entirely by the wide reinforced edge portions of the tops I and 8 of the pockets and through the entire width of the bands H and I2.

It will be understood facings may be employed on inner surfaces of the pockets 5 and 6, but as the use of such facings in garments is commonly known, no reference or illustration is made thereof. In fact, garments made with the wide hems, as described, do not require the use of facings, from the standpoint of protection to the body of the wearer. In garments of this type and kind, the greatest pressure upon the body is usually exerted at peripheral edges of the pockets and these edges are soft and unmarred by stitchings or other facings of any type or kind, thus producing very desirable and advantageous results in the garment.

It will also be apparent that insofar as the conthat as and when desired,

struction of edge portions of the garment is concerned, this principle is applicable to garments regardless of how the cups or pockets are otherwise constructed to give the desired shape or con- 7 tour thereto. From this standpoint, it is not essential that the entire cup or pocket insofar as the outer facing is concerned he composed of a single sheet of material. The illustration in the accompanying drawing is one to show a simple and economical adaptation of the invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A garment of the class described comprising breast pockets, means supporting the pockets upon the body of a wearer, each pocket being formed from a single outer facing sheet, said facing sheet extending to form wide upper and lower hems, free edge portions of the hems being stitched to the facing sheet in wide spaced relationship to terminal upper and lower edges of the pocket in forming wide band portions at upper and lower edge portions of the pocket, and a dart in the lower portion of the pocket and the lower hem giving breast conforming contour to the pocket.

2. A brassiere employing a pair of breast pockets, each of said pockets comprising an outer onepiece facing sheet and inner hem portions integral with said facing sheet and joining the same along peripheral folds at upper and lower edges of said pocket, and said hem portions and facing sheet being joined by lines of stitching substantially following the contour of upper and lower edges of said pockets in widely spaced relation to said peripheral folds.

JACK GLICK.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,009,731 French July 30, 1935 2,149,819 Rubinstein Mar. 7, 1939 1,824,613 Middleton Sept. 22, 1931 2,049,569 Price Aug. 4, 1936 2,134,294 Yerkes Oct. 25, 1938 

